Dimensions of Ethical Thought - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820405906 ISBN 13: 9780820405902

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1993

Synopsis

The book focuses on the nature of social and personal morality and on the relation between them. Each of its five parts begins with an introduction to a specific moral problem, presents a concrete case illustrating the problem, and then turns to a classical and a contemporary reading aiming to resolve the problem.

About this title

About the Author

The Editors: Anthony E. Hartle is a professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy. He has combined academic and military careers, having taught at West Point for eleven years while also serving in a wide variety of military assignments, ranging from commanding an infantry battalion to serving as a staff member on the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. Dr. Hartle, a colonel in the U.S. Army, has published Moral Issues in Military Decision Making (1990), as well as articles in various philosophy and military journals.
John Kekes is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of A Justification of Rationality (1976), The Nature of Philosophy (1980), The Examined Life (1988) and over 80 scholarly articles on epistemology and ethics. He is a Rockefeller and an Earhart Fellow; the General Editor of a book series, Studies in Moral Philosophy; and a Consulting Editor of Moral Tradition and Individuality (1989), Facing Evil (1990), Public Affairs Quarterly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820405906
• ISBN 13: 9780820405902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 289
• Editor: Hartle Anthony E, Kekes John